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Insanity Unplugged

March 30, 2009 by Leave a Comment

I participated in Kimba’s unplugged Friday….mostly. My goal was to keep the computer off the whole day. I did remember some banking I needed to do, and since I do everything online, I had to get on for a little bit to take care of business, but I didn’t do anything blog related at all (in fact, I still have some emails to respond to). It was harder than I thought it would be, just because in the course of a typical weekday, there are so many things I do on the computer, and there is that constant pull to see if there is something new that needs my attention. I learned a few things from this exercise:

  1. I am TOO busy. I do too much. I’ve known this for a while and I am not sure how it is ever going to change, but I found myself staying up late working on things on the computer the night before so that I could participate in the challenge. My husband asked if that kind of defeated the purpose. He may be right, but there were things that I felt couldn’t wait. Especially since I would be gone all day Saturday. I should be able to take a day off with out it being a big deal.
  2. It was much easier to get my daughter to school on-time, without the computer on. I always feel like I need to check messages first thing, but it’s easy to get sucked into blogs, and then run out of time for things like…getting dressed. The lesson: I need to be more scheduled about when I am on the computer, and stick to it.
  3. It is easier to get more physical work done (cleaning, organizing, projects) with the computer off. I spent a bit of time in my closet working on my SPRING CLEANING PROJECTS! I will be posting about those tomorrow. Please come and share with us!
    (One participant will win these gorgeous gloves!)

And this was Saturday, not Friday, but I did have to unplug to go to the workshop and learn how to do stuff like this:

(click on picture for better resolution)

What do you think about this cutie? I’ll be posting more pictures and maybe some ideas about adding texture to photos over on My Digital Insanity, soon.

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